Drivers who rely on coins to pay for parking in Vancouver had better make sure they have a credit card or a parking app.<\/p>\n
The city says it will soon eliminate coins as a payment option for street parking, \u201cin an effort to streamline operation and modernize parking infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVancouver is part of a growing number of jurisdictions no longer using coins for parking, including City of North Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, Washington, DC,\u201d the City of Vancouver said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trend is driven by a desire to eliminate the \u2018coin-handling lifecycle,\u2019 which includes the labour of collection, the security of transport, and the high failure rate of physical coin mechanisms due to jams or vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike the other Canadian cities mentioned, Vancouver\u2019s meters are in effect seven days a week, from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. In Winnipeg and Regina, for example, the city meters are only in effect until 5:30 p.m., Monday to Friday<\/p>\n
According to the City of Vancouver, only four per cent of its parking revenue comes from coin payments. Most use parking apps such as PayByPhone and HotSpot, it says.<\/p>\n
In addition to apps and credit cards, users can pay by calling PayByPhone at 604-909-7275. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends and holidays, drivers can pay by calling 311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers who rely on coins to pay for parking in Vancouver had better make sure they have a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-613972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}